Developing Culturally Effective Strategies for Chinese to English Geotourism Translation by Corpus-Based Interdisciplinary Translation Analysis

Abstract As a new field of translation with its own special genre, geotourism has not yet been firmly established because translations are currently sufficient professional standard. This situation does provide geotourists the genre’s full target enjoyment, learning and engagement through science popularisation tourism activities. In order to better meet these three definitive purposes in geotourism, this study analyses basic categories geotourism—geological features (GFs), geological processes (GPs) cultural elements (CEs)—to determine effective strategies from Chinese into English. Challenges include scientific jargon, language style gaps. article, advantages Hu’s Eco-translatology theory explained used for minimising problems; corpus linguistics method, superior quantitative qualitative analysis, is utilised. well, digital auxiliary tools Tmxmall (2014) Sketch Engine (2003) were employed facilitate research. Through each key categories, GFs, GPs CEs, identified, shaped recommended future translators’ attention. results, literal translation, transliteration free addition use official UNESCO names render GFs. Division shift division GPs. Literal CEs. Since an initial investigation genre attempted build model platform wider research pedagogy improvement quality.